Dmitry Yemanov wrote:

>> For me will be much more important to free Firebird from the 27 chars
>> >restriction on object names, or a new wire protocol, than to have a new
>> >SMP architecture. If one say that he needs 5 years to implement a new
>> >SMP architecture, but 6 months to release a new version without the 27
>> >char limit you could bet that I would choose the 6 months version.

> The limit is 31 chars in v2.5. I know many users would like to extend
> it, although the Oracle example shows us that it's not really that
> important as people tend to think.

At the end of the day does the size of object names 'inside' the engine really
matter? The bigger they are the slower the core works? It's a relational
database so why can't the 'long' names - if you must have them - be provided
outside. 11 characters used to be fine for file names with a bigger veneer of
long file names. It's only the user interface that needs to see the longer names
... perhaps with full unicode?

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